Intimacy Avoidance: Why Emotional and Sexual Closeness Feels Difficult
Intimacy avoidance is a pattern of resisting or withdrawing from emotional, romantic, physical, or sexual closeness because vulnerability feels unsafe.
Fear of Engulfment: When Intimacy Feels Like Loss of Self
Fear of engulfment is anxiety that emotional closeness or commitment will cause a loss of identity, freedom, privacy, or control.
Emotional Unavailability: Signs, Causes, and Effects on Intimacy
Emotional unavailability is a limited capacity or willingness to express, receive, and respond to emotions within a close relationship.
Disorganized Attachment: Conflicting Fears of Closeness and Abandonment
Disorganized attachment is an insecure pattern involving both a desire for closeness and fear, mistrust, confusion, or withdrawal when intimacy develops.
Attachment Avoidance: Emotional Distance and Fear of Intimacy
Attachment avoidance is a pattern of discomfort with emotional closeness, dependence, vulnerability, and support in intimate relationships.